Patricia Schroeder: “as time evolves we are seeing more and more about how things look and how things really are. I must say, as one of the…”

“as time evolves we are seeing more and more about how things look and how things really are. I must say, as one of the people who has been very concerned about the Violence Against Women Act, because I think living rooms in America and kitchens in America are the classrooms of violence for many of our young people, I was so proud when this body passed the Violence Against Women Act, and what did it pass by? It passed by 411 to 0, and you really cannot do any better than that. So, after 200-and-some years of this Republic, we finally decided that we would go right to the core of where a lot of this violence was starting, in the home, and we also realized that, if children see every single dispute solved, every single dispute solved with violence at home, they are not going to be able to be given a conflict-resolution course for a couple of hours in school to change their behavior. So, going in and really saying for the first time this country was going to take this seriously I thought was marvelous. Well, now we see that, while we passed the bill, apparently they are taking all the money out. There was to be $161 million appropriated for such things as shelters for victims of domestic violence, for families; a hotline for the very first time. We have never had a national hotline on this issue.…”